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Download full textSidler, Jennifer L. – 1992
In 1991 the School District of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) invited elementary and middle schools to participate in a pilot project to develop and implement portfolio and performance-based assessments. Twenty-five schools began work in winter 1992. Research for Better Schools, Inc. analyzed the progress reports submitted by the schools. The…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Middle Schools
Baker, Michele C.; And Others – 1993
In 1992, the Leon County School District in Tallahassee (Florida) began a review process to select a new norm-referenced test. The selection process was efficient and functional, and may be of interest to other school districts. Consideration was given to a variety of sources through the following process steps: (1) establish the norm-referenced…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Riches, Vivienne C.; Parmenter, Trevor R. – 1991
This report describes a pilot program of the New South Wales (Australia) Department of Education to develop community transition teams as part of an effort to provide transition education to people with disabilities. The project is based on a model developed in Oregon and stresses assisting each community to work cooperatively to assess local…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs
Foreman, David J.; Dunn, John G. – 1997
The management enhancement team approach (META) is a team-driven management development program designed for managers within Australia's National Vocational Education and Training Sector (NVETS). META, which has been piloted at more than 70 sites across Australia, is designed to identify and address management development needs within the context…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries
McCullough, K. Owen – 1991
The One-Room-Drop-In-School (ORDIS) emerged as one of Tennessee's dropout prevention program innovations. A pilot ORDIS was started in Nashville (Tennessee), in a high density housing project where concentrations of poverty and illiteracy usually exist. A five-bedroom apartment in the housing project was set up as a school. A certified teacher,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Riggs, Matt L.; Worthley, Joanna S. – 1992
A meta-assessment is provided of 15 pilot projects aimed at demonstrating how student outcomes of various kinds can be used to assess the effectiveness of general education and baccalaureate degree programs. The Student Outcomes Assessment projects funded by Academic Program Improvement grants of the California state university system, have…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Students, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Center To Prevent Handgun Violence, Washington, DC. – 1992
Straight Talk about Risks (STAR) is a pre-kindergarten through grade 12 curriculum designed to reduce the potential for children and teens to be injured or killed in gunfire. STAR is based on sound prevention practices developed from a pilot project in Dade County (Florida). The flexible format allows activities to fit into a 3-week classroom unit…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, At Risk Persons, Bibliographies, Crime
Lovelace, Bill E.; LaBrecque, Suzanne V. – 1993
The extent to which competency-based instruction (CBI) has been implemented in postsecondary-level vocational-technical education programs and courses throughout Texas was assessed. Questionnaires were mailed to the occupational education deans/directors of 69 public community and technical college campuses. Each dean/director distributed the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment
Lovelace, Bill E.; LaBrecque, Suzanne V. – 1993
A statewide assessment process was designed and pilot tested to determine the extent to which competency-based instruction (CBI) has been implemented in vocational-technical education programs and courses in all public community and technical colleges in Texas. The final report consists of two volumes. Volume I contains the rationale…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment
Howley, Craig; Boren, Sue – 1993
This report describes the development and evaluation of mathematics activities manuals for grades K-8, correlated with the Tennessee state mathematics curriculum. Seventeen elementary teachers and seven secondary teachers met during January-June 1989 to write draft versions of the manuals and demonstrate activity-based mathematics and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Instructional Material Evaluation, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Schattgen, Sharon Ford – 1993
Initial efforts to validate a developmentally appropriate assessment system for use with children aged 3 to 7 years are described. The Project Construct Assessment System is part of a comprehensive framework for curriculum and assessment that is predicated on the theory that children construct their own knowledge. It features a variety of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Constructivism (Learning), Early Childhood Education, Educational Assessment
Ang, Cheng H.; Noble, Julie P. – 1993
This study examined the separate and joint use of high school course grades, course work taken, and American College Testing Program (ACT) Assessment subject area scores for making course placement decisions. The data for this study were obtained from nine institutions through their participation in a pilot study of the ACT Course Placement…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Course Selection (Students), Decision Making, English
California Assessment Collaborative, San Francisco. – 1993
The California Assessment Collaborative (CAC) was designed as a three-year effort to identify, validate, and disseminate alternatives to standardized testing throughout the state. This report highlights the results from the first year and comments on the work of 22 diverse pilot projects that serve as examples of site-based development of…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Cooperation, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Larson, Jan; Smith, Marian A. – 1994
To learn more about students' computer-literacy levels and attitudes about computer use, a pilot study was performed in the summer of 1993 to evaluate the computer literacy of first-year students entering the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. A survey was completed by 444 incoming students during their orientation programs. The majority had some…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Computer Anxiety, Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy
Bradshaw, Dean H.; Chow, Stanley H. L. – 1990
The audiographics distance learning system (ADL) was piloted by Far West Laboratory (FWL) in 1987-1989 at four school districts in the Great Basin region of Utah. This project was designed to: (1) further develop ADL planning materials for rural schools; (2) disseminate information about ADL to regional and national audiences; and (3) provide ADL…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computer Graphics, Computer Networks, Distance Education
